Quotes of: Forget-the-past Keyword

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Agnes and the Hitman

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The Art of the Novel

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

The African Queen

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

Aquarium

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

Hourglass Museum

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

The House Guest: Pathway to Persuasion

He had been a demon for just two days, but the time when he knew what it was like to be loved seemed to exist in a hazily recalled past, to have been left behind long ago.

Horns

I'd gone so far past my fear threshold, I'd completely given up on being afraid

Haunted on Bourbon Street

... you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

Hyperion

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

The Inner Circle

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

If You Find Me

Buddy ran down the road, turned into another street, and vanished as if he had never been there, like another ghost from New Orleans's past.

Imogene in New Orleans

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.

Imagination and Time

We all have a past that may be worthy of some criticism". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Just Listen

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

On the Jellicoe Road

Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.

Reignite

You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.

Rich in Love

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.

Rising Storm